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Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper-Converged
Appliance

Solutions Guide

Regulatory Model: E43S Series
Regulatory Type: E43S001

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Summary of Contents for XC6420 Series

Page 1: ...Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper Converged Appliance Solutions Guide Regulatory Model E43S Series Regulatory Type E43S001 ...

Page 2: ...amage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem WARNING A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage personal injury or death 2018 Dell Inc or its subsidiaries All rights reserved Dell EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc or its subsidiaries Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners 2018 03 Rev A00 ...

Page 3: ...Series appliances 15 Monitoring the appliance by using iDRAC 15 Monitoring the appliance by using Dell OpenManage Essentials 15 Monitoring an appliance by using Nutanix Web Console 16 Monitoring an appliance by using Nutanix Prism 16 7 Updating firmware 17 Updating drive firmware with Dell Nautilus 17 8 Replacing hardware 19 Replacing components with no cluster data 19 Replacing failed front hard ...

Page 4: ...on by converging computer storage and network into a single appliance that is deployed in a clustered environment The following figure shows the XC6420 Series Hyper Converged Appliances NOTE For more information about deploying the Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper converged Appliances see the manuals available at Dell com XCSeriesmanuals Figure 1 Back view of XC6420 Series sled 1 4 About Dell EMC XC64...

Page 5: ...ocumentation and supported hardware firmware and software Table 1 Documentation references Information Link Nutanix solution software documentation See the Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper Converged Appliances Support Matrix available at Dell com XCSeriesmanuals Dell EMC documentation Supported hardware firmware and software 2 Documentation references 5 ...

Page 6: ... to your environment with these licensed features you must generate the license file download it and then install it NOTE The most current information about your license is available at the Nutanix Customer Support Portal You can view information about license types expiration dates and any free license inventory that is unassigned available licenses Setting up Nutanix Customer Portal If you are n...

Page 7: ...eb Console Guide and then see the License Management section For more information about accessing Web Console Guide see the Documentation Matrix section in the Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper Converged Appliances Support Matrix available at Dell com XCSeriesmanuals 2 Perform the relevant licensing tasks for your appliance License management 7 ...

Page 8: ...tation Dell EMC Documentation NOTE For more information about the Dell EMC documentation and Nutanix documentation see the Documentation matrix section in Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper Converged Appliances Support Matrix available at Dell com XCSeriesmanuals NOTE The Boot Optimized Server Storage BOSS card shipped with XC Series appliances is the appliance boot device This PCIe card supports up to ...

Page 9: ...pped with your appliance 2 Cable your solution based on the best practices cabling diagram shown in the following image NOTE At a minimum there are three appliances in a cluster Figure 2 Cabling an appliance 1 Management Network 2 Host Network NOTE The preferred setup is to connect the management port across all three appliances to the same switch management network Deploying XC Series appliances ...

Page 10: ...umber of vCPU for the CVM Electing applicable data disk storage controller for PCI pass through Disabling drivers associated with pass through storage controllers Installing the following VIBs Nutanix VAAI updated ixgbe and igb driver and GPU VIBs if applicable Renaming local VMFS datastore to standard naming convention NTNX local ds block id node_position Starting CVM and checking for the existen...

Page 11: ...EMC XC6420 Series Hyper Converged Appliances Support Matrix available at Dell com XCSeriesmanuals VMware vSphere 1 Create storage pools through the Nutanix web console 2 Create and mount containers as NFS datastores on appropriate hosts through the Nutanix web console 3 Manually add and configure vSphere clusters by using the Nutanix guidelines NOTE For more information see the vSphere Administrat...

Page 12: ...e Hyper V host Administrator nutanix 4u SSH client or console ESXi host root SSH client Nutanix Controller VM nutanix nutanix 4u Nutanix Web Console PRISM Interface after cluster configuration admin admin NOTE 1 For Username and Password of Web management console see the Service Tag available on the appliance 2 The default password is not set for ESXi hosts 12 Deploying an appliance ...

Page 13: ...OTE To install OpenManage Essentials you must have local appliance administrator privileges and the appliance you are using must meet the criteria mentioned in the Installation Prerequisites and Minimum Requirements section of the OpenManage Essentials User s Guide go to Dell com openmanagemanuals NOTE OpenManage Essentials must be installed on the management network or a network that has access t...

Page 14: ...e Tag or select Choose from a list of all Dell products to select your product from the Product Selection page 3 On the Product Support page click Drivers downloads 4 From the Operating System drop down menu select Not Applicable 5 Go to the SAS Drive section and search for Dell Nautilus Firmware Utility for SAS and SATA disk and SSDs 6 Click Download Click Download again to download the exe file ...

Page 15: ...ssentials Nutanix Prism Front hard drives Nutanix web console Front SSDs Nutanix web console Monitoring the appliance by using iDRAC To monitor the appliance by using iDRAC see the iDRAC User s Guide at Dell com idracmanuals Monitoring the appliance by using Dell OpenManage Essentials Perform the following steps to monitor an appliance by using Dell OpenManage Essentials 1 Download the OpenManage ...

Page 16: ...nverged Appliances Support Matrix available at Dell com XCSeriesmanuals In the Nutanix Prism Web Console Guide document refer to the following sections Health Monitoring Virtual Machine Monitoring Performance Monitoring Alert and Event Monitoring Monitoring an appliance by using Nutanix Prism To monitor the appliance by using Nutanix Prism see the Nutanix Prism Central Guide at Nutanix documentati...

Page 17: ... Dell Update Packages DUPs iDRAC and LCM BIOS Dell Update Packages DUPs iDRAC and LCM iDRAC Dell Update Packages DUPs iDRAC and LCM Dell HBA330 Dell Update Packages DUPs iDRAC and LCM Front hard drives Nutanix web console Front SSDs Nutanix web console BOSS card Contact Dell EMC Support NOTE To update the firmware of the appliance by using Dell Update Packages DUPs iDRAC and LCM see the respective...

Page 18: ...ick Start Guide at Dell com idracmanuals 4 Press F11 to restart the appliance and open BIOS boot manager 5 To mount Dell Nautilus ISO or the USB key to the appliance select EFI Boot Manager 6 From the EFI boot list select Virtual CD or USB drive 7 Click Update Firmware Dell Nautilus updates all hard drives and SSD firmware for all hard drives and SSDs connected to the appliance 18 Updating firmwar...

Page 19: ...About this task You can replace the following hardware components that do not contain cluster data System memory Cooling fans Network Daughter Cards or Network Interface Cards PSUs Perform the following steps to replace the components with no cluster data Steps 1 Turn off the node for the relevant hypervisor For more information see the Failure of Components that do not Contain Cluster Data sectio...

Page 20: ...m XCSeriesmanuals 2 Remove the failed hard drive or SSD For more information see the Installing and removing components hard drives Removing a hot swap hard drive and Installing a hot swap hard drive sections in Dell EMC XC6420 Series Hyper Converged Appliance Installation and Service Manual available at Dell com XCSeriesmanuals NOTE Before installing the new hard drives and SSDs ensure that any f...

Page 21: ...ce Dell EMC provides an option to recover the appliance in the event of an appliance failure or a cluster node failure For more information about recovering an appliance contact Dell EMC support 9 Recovering an appliance 21 ...

Page 22: ...f the page 4 Select the appropriate service or support link based on your requirement Dell EMC SupportAssist For an enhanced Support Experience Dell EMC recommends installing and configuring Dell EMC SupportAssist Dell EMC SupportAssist is a software application that transparently collects information about your appliance and automatically creates support cases when issues are detected Dell EMC Su...

Page 23: ...rce Locator for XC6420 systems Use the Quick Resource Locator QRL to get immediate access to system information and how to videos This can be done by visiting Dell com QRL or by using your smartphone or tablet and a model specific Quick Resource QR code located on your Dell EMC appliance To try out the QR code scan the following image Figure 5 Quick Resource Locator for XC6420 appliance Getting he...

Page 24: ... a USB disk that is 16 GB or higher into an available USB slot of the appliance 2 From the Windows 2016 desktop double click the Make RASR USB disk icon to launch a utility that creates the RASR USB disk IMPORTANT The USB disk contains factory installed configuration information specific for this appliance and must not be used in another appliance As a best practice clearly label the newly created...

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